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UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief Kyung-wha Kang has called on the international community to refocus attention on the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the increasingly complex situation in neighbouring Cameroon.
“We must regain broad donor attention,” she told a press briefing at...

UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief Kyung-wha Kang and UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Dr Chaloka Beyani are in the Central African Republic (CAR) this week to see first-hand the continued, horrific legacy of the violence that has gripped the country since 2013.
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On 23 November, the town of Damassack in northern Nigeria was attacked by the militant group Boko Haram. Thirteen-year-old Hadja Chetima Gambo was at school at the time. In the ensuing panic, the school emptied as everyone scrambled to find a safe place to hide.
Hadja realized she would not be able to...

Harvest season is under way in Senegal. Across the country, families are working tirelessly to collect the crops that will make up the core of their livelihoods for the coming year.
But in central and northern parts of the country, late and irregular rainfall means that thousands of families face the...